Overview

• Officers found an African male in his thirties with a gunshot wound to the upper left chest on a Thabazimbi farm.
• Emergency medical services declared him dead on arrival after responding early in the morning.
• The boy’s 43-year-old father was arrested on a charge of negligent handling of a firearm.
• Investigators confiscated the firearm and a cartridge, and the case remains under active investigation.
• The father and child are scheduled to appear at Thabazimbi Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 13 October 2025, as the provincial police commissioner urges secure storage to keep guns away from children.